I swear I’ve tried like 5 times to delete Reddit for good, but I always and up going back after a couple of months because I miss the webms, gifs, and story posts.

I know that Lemmy seems to have some character restriction that prevents super long story posts (which I think they’ve increased the limit a bit?) and I can scratch the itch with creepy pasta, manga, or SCP archives, but why does Lemmy have such a prominent lack of gifs and webms?

All of the gif-centric communities are dead and I know that there’s no restriction to that type of content, so am I just missing something? If you’re not seeing it here, then where do you guys watch gifs and webms?

  • kobra@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    I don’t have any answers but I’ve been off reddit for ~3 years now and haven’t found alternatives for a lot of the communities that I miss.

    Part of it is probably “be the change you want to see” but if you go looking, there are tons of communities that haven’t had posts in years because the one person that was posting finally gave up. The most active stuff here is mostly controversial news and stuff like that. With no discovery algorithm though, I may be missing some stuff that I would otherwise be interested in because I just haven’t looked for it.